Sobre mulheres e muros: O protagonismo negro feminino no grafite

Abstract

This research seeks to reflect about the graffiti as a place of protagonism for the young black woman, her trajectories of silencing and the lack of representativeness. The objective is to perceive how this deletion unfolds many times the process of self-representation in the urban space, through graffiti. In general, these women do not develop a good relation with their hair and bodies, they do not find positive representations about themselves and they grow up with these absences. Constantly exposed to situations of violence and discrimination, suffering the consequences from a slavery and unequal past. In the urban art, the space of the street is still predominantly masculine, directing women artists to more limited workshops and spaces, in which they stay contained and confined. In addition to the secondary roles, the female graffiti artists still live together with the harassment and the lack of appreciation of their art. The need to occupy our place of speech and to assume a protagonism of our stories, not only in the graffiti`s scene, that is what moves me in this research. Talking about the condition of inequality of the black woman in our racist and patriarchal society is also an initiative for dialogue with the other publications and researches which deal with this subject. It is for our survival and for the access to the rights which are denied to us